Re: Lotus Admin Driving Me Crazy!

[Kelly Borndale]

Open a command prompt on the Notes server. Type telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25 When connected type: >helo <remote server response> >mail from:<your email here>  (note... those lieele <> characters are needed!) <remote server should respond> >mail to:<insert AOL bouncy address here> <remote server say something else> >data <remote server will say something about ending with a LF.LF> (Now, hit return a few times, and then type a message.  When the message is done, hit return, then a . then return again)   See if that gets through.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ K.Borndale   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -home email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:50 AM Subject: Lotus Admin Driving Me Crazy! Greetings all, Our Lotus Notes Admin is trying to track down some mail issues with one of our applications. It seems that when the app sends out mail to some AOL and Hotmail accounts it gets bounced. We have received no other complaints from users of various other ISPs not getting the same type mail. AOL recommends the following: "The second way to test your server is to telnet to the IP address in question through port 25 from a different internet service provider and manually initiate an SMTP transaction. If you can send mail from yourself on the different ISP to yourself on the different ISP, your server is available for free relaying. (Make sure the email actually arrives in your mailbox.)" Does anyone know of any KB articles that might help me with this? I've never tried to telnet via a specific port or initiate a manual SMTP transaction. Regards, Harry Campbell Technical Coordinator City of Savannah, GA 912.651.6913 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm